Tag: India

  • Indian Indigenous Activist and Journalist Dayamani Barla In Her Own Words

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    Dayamani was born in the indigenous tribal (also known as Adivasi in India) dominant Jharkhand state of eastern India. Her family belonged to the Munda tribe. Dayamani’s father like other tribals in the region was cheated out of his property, because he could not read and lacked paperwork to show his rights to the land.…

  • Kalbelia folk songs and dances of Rajasthan

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    Songs and dances are an expression of the Kalbelia community’s traditional way of life. Once professional snake handlers, Kalbelia today evoke their former occupation in music and dance that is evolving in new and creative ways. Today, women in flowing black skirts dance and swirl, replicating the movements of a serpent, while men accompany them…

  • Hindustan Unilever Committed to Growth with Societal Good

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    Unilever launched its Sustainable Living Plan in 2010 and continues to promote it through its international subsidiaries. Nitin Paranjpe CEO of Hindustan Unilever (HUL) is passionate about the program and affirmed his commitment to it in a recent interview with The Economic Times. Paranjpe recognizes “that business has a larger purpose and our purpose cannot be just making…

  • The “Portable Toxic Threat Detector” lets you know if your food is safe to eat

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    If you are interested in knowing what’s in your food, you may soon be able to use the portable toxic threat detector or PTTD, a mechanism developed by third year electronics and telecommuncation engineering students at GH Raisoni College of Engineering, Saurabh Puranik, Shreya Dhondarikar, Sagar Nasre and Sowmya Singh.  It will not only tell you…

  • A Somber Patient Way to Fight

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    Sana Altaf reviews Towfeeq Wani’s novel The Graveyard: a saga of a million bloodstained flowers.  Set in Kashmir during the 2008-2010 uprising Wani’s emotional narrative is “likely to resonate with many Kashmiris.” Agha Shahid Ali would have been proud. Were the famous Kashmiri poet alive today (he died in 2001), he would have surely commented on the…

  • Another Victory for Seed Freedom

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    Dr. Vandana Shiva, a world-renowned advocate for seed freedom and opponent of GMO’s, explains why the Indian Court’s rejection of Monsanto’s climate resilient plant patent is so important to seed freedom: Monsanto tried to create an irrelevant and false opposition of natural production of plants versus production based on human intervention. This is false because…

  • Iranian Mystic Baba Tahir

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    Baba Tahir (ca. 1000-1060 AD) of Hamadan (Hemedan, Ekbatan in Median era) is one of the very first poets in the East to write rubaiyats. Little is known of the circumstances of Baba Tahir’s birth and death. Baba Tahir’s rusticity and mastery of both Kurdish (Lekí dialect), Persian (and Arabic) have rendered his works unusually…

  • Opposition to GMO’s Growing Around the World

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    In a piece in bulatlat.com, Rhennie Cantiga cites toxicologist Dr. Romy Quijano: “There are numerous studies on the harmful effects of GMOs but pro-GMO scientists refuse to see this. Their blindness is not caused by GMO but by the money offered by big companies.” Cantiga goes on to further report: Citing hazards to health, environment and…

  • Morya Morya (Deva Tuzya Dari Aalo)-Ajay Atul

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    Morya Gosavi was a 14th century saint of the Ganapatya sect. He was a great devotee of Ganesha. Although he is known by many other attributes, Ganesha’s elephant head makes him particularly easy to identify. Ganesha is widely revered as the Remover of Obstacles and more generally as the Lord of Beginnings and the Lord of Obstacles, patron of arts…

  • Tuesday Prayer

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    I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung. —Rabindranath Tagore –